The great conspiracy against Julius Caesar - Kathryn Tempest

View full lesson: ed.ted.com/lessons/the-great-conspiracy-against-julius-caesar-kathryn-tempestOn March 15th, 44 BCE, Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of about 60 of his own senators. Why did these self-titled Liberators want him dead? And why did Brutus, whose own life had been saved by Caesar, join in the plot? Kathryn Tempest investigates the personal and political assassination of Julius Caesar.Lesson by Kathryn Tempest, animation by Brett Underhill.

Did games of thrones writer dream of Brutus and Ceaser kissing? This is like the ending to Games of thrones. Jon kill Dany cause she have too much power. Then they started a thing where they can choose their leader

The Republic is just a veil that covers corruption and impunity. Bureaucrats and politicians plot and plunder how best they could manipulate the system to gain personal wealth and further exploit the masses. I'd rather one vile dictator than a bunch of old, big-bellied no good senators.

Brutus was a hero, Ceasar invaded Rome by force threatening the senators with death to loot the treasury and breaking the no armament law in Rome to take over the city. He was the tyrant, Brutus always put Rome first, that's why he joined pompey in the first place.

It's a rathe biased video, and pretty inaccurate at that, depicting brutus as a selfless spirit, downplaying the significance of is involvement during the civil war on the side of the Optimates, the faction who advokated for all the power to be in the hands of the noble families, and minimizing both the many factors that brought to Caesar's status as Dictator (which didn't mean the same as the modern day word, by the way) and his actions once in power. Furthermore, it doesn't point out that rome had already been under a life-long dictator at that point and successfully reverted to democracy after his death. An ultimately partial and pretty useless history pastiche that feels more like a creative interpretation. Brutus wasn't just a martyr of freedom and Caesar was neither a power mad dictator nor the most selfless man to ever rise to power.

Also worth noting that Brutus’ mother was a long time mistress of Julius Caesar. So judging by the way Caesar treated him (and by the way he reacted when he saw Brutus with the conspirators) I believe It’s a good chance Brutus was Caesar’s son.

This video sucks. They are essentially trying to make Brutus and the other conspirators seem justified in Caesar's murder. The Conspirators knew that Caesar's power lay in his army and as long as that was the case killing Caesar wouldn't solve anything, as the Civil Wars that followed his death would show. Until Rome could solve the issue of the Army being loyal to its General and not the State many a Marius, a Sulla, and Caesar would come along and do the exact same thing. Brutus was soft and allowed peer pressure to persuade him to commit patricide.

Wrong for corruption, even if he used it to rise to power he stopped it for a good part when he was "elected" dictator for 10 years. Plus rome was in a perpetuous rivality inside the senate before caesar. Pompey and crassus are good exemples of it. No laws would pass and no action taken because no one could do anything

I have nothing but contempt for Brutus. Even if he was driven by lofty ideals, there is no justification for literally stabbing your greatest benefactor/father in the back, who loved and supported you all your life. Dante was right to envision such a gruesome place and punishment for him.

Ac origins gave a reason as to why he was killed. He killed khemu after all and a mother would want vengeance but aya shouldn't have gotten involved. That would show multiple sides to the whole scenario instead of being one sided. Ubisoft portrayed him as a villian which he was to many barbarians and those the Romans conqoured but in the end he was trying to do what was best for his people and ubisoft should have portrayed all of the perspectives to this.

Wow, I saw two stories about Julius Caesar tonight, and both this on and the other one is all wrong. How many of you have forgotten the Triumvirate??? Marc Anthony, Pompey and Augustus were in power. Pompey was not yet dead and died in 48 BC supposingly. This means Caesar, & Anthony and soon Augustus held power of which Caesar had the west and Anthony had the east. When Caesar died in 44 BC as they say, his death created the Triumvirate 3 leaders in power. Cleopatra, Anthony and Augustus!!!!! Next Anthony gets killed and Augustus kills not only Cleopatra, but any children she had from Caesar and Anthony!!!!! That is how Augustus became the Emperor of Rome a sole dictator if you want to call it.